Ethiopia – Bombe Washed
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Bensa District, Sidama
Processing station: Bombe
Altitude: 2000 – 2400 m.a.s.l.
Variety: Heirloom (indigenous varieties)
Processing: bombe dry fermentation
Taste profile: jasmine, bergamot, black tea, honey cake, apricots
Your favorite Bombe, named after the beautiful Ethiopian mountains, is back! Enjoy a pleasant hint of black tea, jasmine, and the sweetness of honey cake. Its unique tea-like profile is also thanks to its processing – washed dry fermentation, which is a great progressive method with minimized water consumption.
Colombia – Inzá Washed
Country: Colombia
Region: Inzá, Cauca
Processing station: Regional Inzá
Altitude: 1800 – 2100 m.a.s.l.
Processing: washed
Variety: Tabi, Pink Bourbon, Caturra and Colombia
Taste profile: orange, dried figs, linden flower, anise
It’s sweet like oranges and dried figs, but also full of floral notes of linden flower and anise – a very pleasant winter coffee. With every coffee we offer, we aim for transparency. However, this coffee is even more special to us. We’ve partnered with Siruma Coffee to help them build solar dryers in the Cauca region. How? For every package of coffee sold, we will send two dollars back – one from us, and the other one from you. Are you in?
Peru – Guevara Washed
Country: Peru
Region: La Libertad, La Coipa, San Ignacio
Processing station: David Guevara
Altitude: 1800 – 1900 m.a.s.l.
Variety: Catimor, Pache
Process: washed
Profile: apple, bergamot, lime with brown sugar, black tea and toffee
Uganga – Zebigi Washed
Country: Uganda
Region: Upper Bukyabo
Processing station: Coffee Gardens
Altitude: 1800-2200 m.a.s.l.
Variety: SL14, SL28, Nyasaland
Processing: washed
Taste profile: Chamomile tea with lemon, and hazelnut cream
This coffee was grown high in the Ugandan mountains near the village of Zebigi and processed by Coffee Gardens. The coffee company has a station below the mountain where most farmers live; they know all of them in person. They blend the coffee into micro lots by combining coffees with similar flavor characteristics processed on the same day.
Brazil – Manga Larga
Country: Brazil
Region: Tres Pontas, Sul de Minas
Processing station: Rancho Grande
Altitude: 950 m.a.s.l.
Variety: Arara
Processing: natural
Taste profile: dates, Baileys, lemon grass
Brazil is generally considered a country where coffee tastes are conservative and even boring for some; it certainly does not include the coffee from Rancho Grande farm and their Manga Larga project. In the cup, you can find extraordinary tastes rarely found in Brazilian coffee, such as tones of dates, Baileys, and lemon grass.